SUNDAY TIMES 2014 LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR! The extraordinary and exhilarating story of James Joyce's 15-year battle to publish his masterpiece, Ulysses.
Kevin Birmingham is a lecturer in History & Literature at Harvard. He was a bartender in a Dublin pub featured in ULYSSES for one day before he was unceremoniously fired. This is his first book.
Riveting... populated with enough larger-than-life characters and
twists to make a fiction writer envious'
*Matthew Pearl*
A wonderfully eye-opening read... superb'
*Frank Delaney*
Birmingham's imaginative scholarship brings Joyce and his world to
life
*Louis Menand*
Kevin Birmingham has a deep love of Ulysses, and knows everything
about Joyce. His learned book is a gripping page-tuner
*A N Wilson, Sunday Telegraph*
A riveting account of just how difficult it was to bring Ulysses
into the world
*Sunday Herald*
It is a wonderful guide to the 20th century's most dangerous,
brilliant book
*The Sunday Times*
With humour, excitement and conspicuous scholarship, literary
historian Kevin Birmingham recounts the creation of the novel, the
fight against censorship, and the establishment of a classic that
changed the face of literature
*The Good Book Guide*
Few books about publishing manage to be this gripping. Like the
novel which it takes as its subject, it deserves to be read
*Economist*
Birmingham tells the story with a mixture of compelling insight and
deeply researched knowledge to form that most unusual hybrid: an
erudite page-turner
*Mail on Sunday.*
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